Dale Hanson

I even could hear the trucks down the highway farther away, and even tailgates going in.

Sometimes that's not a good sign, because it means they're unloading troops to come after you, you know.

But...

As we're kind of waking up and all this stuff, I had this smell that brought me back to when I was a boy, mowing lawns.

It was the grass, green grass that was being mowed.

It just was so familiar to me.

So I got up and we maneuvered to this trail area.

And it was probably, from me to you, probably six feet wide, eight feet wide, maybe wider, where the people, the NVA were going by battalions toward Manhattan, trying to take them out, had mowed it down and walked through it so much.

It was, all the grass was broken and that smell from grass being down and stuff.

It was just strong, really strong.

And I'm looking and it's like,

They are saturated in this area.

You know, we're going to be in trouble pretty soon.

Well, anyway, Doni and I in the team were maneuvering along this road.

We're about to come off the road.

And all of a sudden, I looked down, and I saw comma wire.

It was hidden quite well.

But I found CommaWire.

And so as soon as we got safely off the trail, I mentioned to Donnie, whispering, I said, CommaWire.

And we went over, and sure enough, there was CommaWire.